Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction
1,862 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDharma Seed is dedicated to preserving and sharing the spoken teachings of Theravada Buddhism in modern languages. Since the early 1980's, Dharma Seed has collected and distributed dharma talks by teachers offering the vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness) practices of Theravada Buddhism. New recordings are being added continuously from contemporary dharma teachers.
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Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation Exploring Several Forms of Inquiry 2
January 05, 2022 10:05 - 35 minutes - 28.8 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After a period of settling, we work with two main forms of inquiry or investigation (one of the Seven Factors of Awakening). The first is inquiry through mindfulness when an experience has some duration: Asking what's happening and exploring what's going in the body, the emotions, and the story-line or narrative. The second is inquiry through working with a teaching. Here we work with a simple teaching, coming from the Four Noble Truths: "If there's suffering (...
Jill Shepherd: 27 talk: Seven Factors of Awakening
January 04, 2022 19:00 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) An overview of the Seven Factors of Awakening
Jill Shepherd: 22 talk: Five Hindrances
January 03, 2022 19:00 - 49 minutes - 22.7 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) An overview of the Five Hindrances, afflictive mental states that get in the way of clear seeing
Jill Shepherd: 21 instructions: mindfulness of mind-states
January 03, 2022 14:30 - 11 minutes - 5.59 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) A short introduction to mindfulness of mind-states or mental qualities, practising vipassanā out loud in pairs
Jill Shepherd: 22 instructions: mindfulness of mind-states
January 03, 2022 14:30 - 11 minutes - 5.59 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) A short introduction to mindfulness of mind-states or mental qualities, practising vipassanā out loud in pairs
Jill Shepherd: 20 instructions: continuity of mindfulness p3
January 03, 2022 10:15 - 4 minutes - 1.99 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) Short instructions for continuing mindfulness through daily activities, includinng mindfulness of eating
Jill Shepherd: 19 meditation: mindfulness of thinking
January 03, 2022 09:45 - 21 minutes - 9.91 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) Beginning with the breath, physical sensations and sounds, then opening to knowing mental activity, noticing thoughts come and go
Jill Shepherd: 18 instructions: mindfulness of mind
January 03, 2022 09:30 - 10 minutes - 4.93 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) A short introduction to practising mindfulness of the mind by bringing awareness to thoughts
Jill Shepherd: 17 talk: feeling-tone or vedanā
January 02, 2022 19:00 - 41 minutes - 19.5 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) Feeling-tone shapes how we perceive and experience the world, and we can use pleasant feeling-tone skilfully to support balance of heart and mind
Jill Shepherd: 16 instructions: mindfulness of feeling-tone
January 02, 2022 14:30 - 14 minutes - 6.73 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) A brief overview of the role of feeling-tone or vedanā in conditioning reactivity
Ayya Anandabodhi: Guided Meditation Day Seven
January 02, 2022 13:30 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Jill Shepherd: 15 instructions: continuity of mindfulness p2
January 02, 2022 10:15 - 6 minutes - 3.13 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) The importance of maintaining light, continuous mindfulness through all activities, and bringing awareness to what gets in the way of doing this
Ayya Anandabodhi: Morning Reflection
January 02, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes - 16.8 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Jill Shepherd: 14 meditation: mindfulness of hearing
January 02, 2022 09:45 - 22 minutes - 10.3 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) Beginning by establising the body and breathing as an anchor, then opening to physical sensations through the whole body, then opening to hearing
Jill Shepherd: 13 instructions: mindfulness of mindfulness itself
January 02, 2022 09:30 - 17 minutes - 7.92 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) Exploring different approaches to mindfulness and different styles of practice, including those that are more active and those that are more receptive, then brief instructions for practising mindfulness of hearing
Nathan Glyde: Ways of Practice
January 01, 2022 19:34 - 1 hour - 119 MB(Gaia House) Guided meditation and talk about four ways to see our meditation practice: gathering in well-being; radiating beautiful qualities; investigating experience; playing with lenses of perception. Because all things, including meditation, are dependently arising fabrications: there are many ways to meet them, and many (probably endless) ways of practising.
Jill Shepherd: 12 talk: Wisdom and Compassion
January 01, 2022 19:00 - 37 minutes - 17.6 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) Exploring the reciprocal relationship between wisdom and compassion
Ayya Anandabodhi: Kamma and the Four Right Efforts
January 01, 2022 16:15 - 43 minutes - 34.9 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Jill Shepherd: 11 instructions: mindfulness of the body part 2
January 01, 2022 14:30 - 15 minutes - 7.38 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) A short exploration of working with physical pain, then instructions for relational practice exploring physical sensations in the body
Ayya Santacitta: A Different Perception of Disturbances ~ Face It Full On!
January 01, 2022 10:00 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Reflection & Guided Meditation
Jill Shepherd: 10 guided meditation: sati and samādhi
January 01, 2022 09:45 - 24 minutes - 11.4 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) Using the breath to strengthen both sati / mindfulness and samādhi / steadiness of mind NOTE: this talk was given at a different retreat but the content is similar to what was covered on this retreat
Jill Shepherd: 09 instructions: sati and samādhi p2
January 01, 2022 09:30 - 8 minutes - 3.82 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) How the qualities of sati / mindfulness and samādhi / stability of mind work together to support deepening insight NOTE: this talk was given at a different retreat but the content is similar to what was covered on this retreat
Jill Shepherd: 08 talk: six supports for the retreat container
December 31, 2021 19:00 - 38 minutes - 17.7 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) How safety, silence, solitude, simplicity, slowing down, and stillness support the deepening of our meditation practice on retreat
Jill Shepherd: 07 meditation: body scan inviting release of tension
December 31, 2021 14:45 - 25 minutes - 11.6 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) Bringing awareness to areas of the body where we commonly hold tension and inviting it to soften or release, as a support for both physical and mental ease
Jill Shepherd: 06 instructions: mindfulness of the body
December 31, 2021 14:30 - 14 minutes - 6.59 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) An introduction to the First Establishment of Mindfulness, Mindfulness of the Body
Ayya Anandabodhi: Afternoon Guided Meditation Day Five
December 31, 2021 13:30 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Jill Shepherd: 05 instructions: standing and walking meditation
December 31, 2021 10:15 - 11 minutes - 5.54 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) The importance of continuity of mindfulness, plus instructions for standing and walking meditation
Ayya Anandabodhi: Morning Reflection Day Five
December 31, 2021 10:00 - 18 minutes - 14.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Jill Shepherd: 03 instructions: mindfulness of breathing
December 31, 2021 09:30 - 14 minutes - 6.79 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) Beginning instructions for developing mindfulness (sati) and steadiness of mind (samadhi) using the breath as our primary object
Jill Shepherd: 01 talk: retreat opening, dana and sila
December 30, 2021 20:00 - 35 minutes - 16.6 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators)
Ayya Anandabodhi: Evening Talk Day Four
December 30, 2021 16:15 - 32 minutes - 26.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Anandabodhi: The Sparkle of Impermanence
December 30, 2021 16:15 - 32 minutes - 26.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Anandabodhi: Guided Meditation Day Four
December 30, 2021 13:30 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Anandabodhi: Guided Meditation - Cultivating Presence
December 30, 2021 13:30 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Santacitta: Do i Want to Grasp or Do i Want to Understand?
December 30, 2021 10:00 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Reflection & Guided Meditation
Ayya Anandabodhi: Guided Meditation Afternoon Day Three
December 29, 2021 13:30 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Donald Rothberg: Inquiry as a Factor of Awakening in Formal Meditation and Daily Life 1
December 29, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Inquiry is one of the Seven Factors of Awakening, and can be a crucial factor in our practice, leading to greater energy, interest, and learning. Yet we may believe that meditation should be about "not thinking." We explore how we need to be able to not be ruled by thinking; this can make it possible then to use thinking and question fruitfully in inquiry. In the talk, we outline five modes of inquiry, going into depth on two of them: (1) bringing inquiry into ...
Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation Exploring Several Forms of Inquiry
December 29, 2021 10:08 - 35 minutes - 28.4 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After some basic instructions in settling with an anchor, and on being with and seeing clearly what's predominant when somewhat settled, we can also explore several instructions for bringing inquiry (or investigation) into practice, through (1) asking what is present right now; (2) exploring with mindfulness an experience that has some duration, asking, "What's going on in the body? . . . What emotion is there and how does it change? . . . What's the narrative ...
Ayya Anandabodhi: Move Towards Freedom
December 29, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 16.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Santacitta: Really Being Here for this Collective Rite of Passage
December 28, 2021 19:41 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Reflection & Guided Meditation
Brian Lesage: The Skill of Noticing What Else is Here
December 28, 2021 19:00 - 33 minutes - 61.7 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk explores learning the skill of using the question: What else is here supporting me? The talk is in honor of Etty Hillesum.
Ayya Anandabodhi: Elements of the Path
December 28, 2021 16:15 - 35 minutes - 16.1 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Caroline Jones: Reflections on metta and mindfulness.
December 23, 2021 08:29 - 1 hour - 30.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
Mark Nunberg: Morning Reflection: Balancing Sensitivity and Safety
December 22, 2021 08:28 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Mark Nunberg: Appreciating Equanimity
December 21, 2021 19:04 - 50 minutes - 23.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Equanimity can develop into a radiant and powerful balance of heart and mind that provides both a taste of freedom and clarifies the path of practice. Equanimity arises both by learning to recognize and abide with any wholesome experience of wellbeing, and by the deepening insight into the transitory, ephemeral nature of all things leading onward to dispassion
Brian Lesage: Winter Solstice: Beginning Again with Meditation
December 21, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 118 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on honoring the Winter Solstice through beginning our path again with preliminary instructions on Insight meditation. The talk is followed by a 30 minute guided meditation.
Mark Nunberg: Morning Reflection: Working with Mental Storms
December 20, 2021 08:30 - 18 minutes - 8.71 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
Eugene Cash: Retreat and Dukkha and Sukha
December 19, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 127 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)
Martin Aylward, Willa Baker: Visceral Enlightenment: Somatic Practice as a Dharma Path
December 18, 2021 10:30 - 1 hour - 126 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Sylvia Boorstein: Todo en La Vida es Temporal
December 16, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 44.8 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)